Houellebecq pulls punches

09 September 2015 - 02:16
By Andrew Donaldson

If you read one book this week 'Sweet Caress' by William Boyd (Bloomsbury) R370An audacious, deeply satisfying layer cake of a novel about a documentary photographer, Amory Clay, whose work took in most of the upheavals of the 20th century. Structured as a memoir, the novel is a celebration of the success of women journalists like Lee Miller and Martha Gellhorn at a time when the profession was dominated by men.

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